Attachment for washboilers.



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ATTACHMENT FOR WASHBOILERS. APPLICATION mio IMM/11.1916. y

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@NITE @ik JULIUS J'. ZIELENSKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

ATTACHMENT 'FOR WASHBOILERS.

Specification of Letters atent.

Patented Sept. 5, 1916..

App1ication filed May 11, 1916. Serial No. 96,850.

To @ZZ whom t may concern Be it known that l, JULrUs J. ZrnLnNsKn, a citiz/,en of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county oie Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Attachments for VaShboilers, of which the following is a specification.

Vlhis invention relates to attachments for domestic wash boilers and has as its object to provide an attachment which may be readily applied to any ordinary wash boiler and which will add to the eliciency of the same by assisting the circulation of the rater through the articles being washed.

It is one aim or" the inventionto provide an attachment of the class described so constructed that the hot water from the vicinity of the bottom of the boiler will be conveyed to the top of the boiler and sprayed over the surface with sutlicient force to permeate the articles of clothing at the surface of the water, the rapidity of liow of the circulating water currents being at the same time i11- creased so as to provide for thorough cleansing of the articles.

It is another aim of the invention to provide an attachment of the class described so constructed that the major portion thereof, or in other words that portion through which the water is caused to circulate, may be removed without disturbing the remainder of the structure so that the said portion olf the attachment may be cleaned after use.

ln the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the device, Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view therethrough, Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the cap member of the device removed from the remainder of the structure.

'lhe attachment of the present invention embodies a hollow base portion which constitutes a hot water receiving chamber and which comprises a top 5 which is preferably substantially elliptical in marginal outline and which is inclined upwardly from its margin to its central. portion as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The top 5 is iinpertorate and is provided with a depending marginal. -flange 6 which is formed with a circuinscribing series of openings 7 through which water may enter the said chamber. The chamber itself is open at its bottoni, and when the attachment is disposed within the boiler, the lower edge of the flange 6 rests upon the upper surface of the bottom of the boiler, indicated by the numeral 8. For a purpose to be presently explained, the chamber is provided interiorly with two or more baflies 9 which, in the present instance, are secured at their upper edges to the under side of the top 5 of the chamber, the lower edges of the baflies resting upon the upper side of thc boiler bottom, and the baliles being preferably longitudinally arcuate and arranged each inwardly of one end of the said body.

Upstanding from the central portion oit' the top of the hot water receiving chamber is a water conducting tube 10 which communicates at its lower` end with the interior of the said chamber and which, at its upper end, is liared as at 11. open fla-red upper end of the tube 10 is a concavo-convex cap 12, the cap being arranged with its concave side presented downwardly and being formed on this side with a plurali-ty of radial ribs 13 which rest at their vlower edges upon the upper edge of the said tube, and which serve to slightly space the under side of the cap from the said edge of the tube to provide water outlet passages 14: located inwardly of the edge ot the cap.

ln order that the several parts comprising the attachment may be held properly as- 1 seinbled with each other and with the bottom of the wash boiler, ay means is provided which will now be described.

A rod 15 is threaded at its lower end into an upstanding neck 16 formed upon the upper side of a head 17, the said neck being tted through an opening formed centrally in the boiler' bottom 8, and a washer 18 preferably of tin is fitted to the said neck 16 and bears between the head 17 and the under side of the boiler bottom, The neck 1G is eX- teriorly threaded and has fitted thereon a rubber packing washer 19 and a nut 20, which latter is tightened upon the neck so as to bear firmly against the washer 19 and4 prevent leakage of water through the opening which receives the neck 16. rlhe rod 15 extends upwardly axially of the tube 10 and through an opening 21 formed through the thickened mid-portion 22v of the cap 1 2.

The upper end of the rod is threaded as indicated at 23, and fitted thereto is a wing nut 24 which bears upon the upper side or' the said cap.

Disposed upon the From the foregoing description ot the in- .1.

vention it will be understood that the hot water at the bottom of the boiler will enter the water receiving chamber through the `openings 7 and that a. circulation will be created within the chamber by reason of the presencerof the baifles 9.V VThe water,

upon rising through the tube l0, will be forcibly ejected through the passages la in the form of a sheet or sprayl onto the surface of the body of Ywater and the articles at the said surface. After the device has been used and it is desired to clean the same, the wing nut 24 may be removedV andthe entire device, including the rod 15 and the parts associated -with the lower end thereof, may be removed,

I claim: l. In an attachment of the class described, a water receiving chamber, provided with c water inlet openings, a water conducting tube extending upwardly fromV the said chamber and in communication therewith, a cap disposed upon the upper end of the said tube and provided with va concave under side having ribs resting upon the edge of the said upper'end of the tube, the ribs spacing the said under side of the cap from the said end of the tube, and means connected with the cap for holding the same upon the tube and for securing the attachment to the bottom of a vessel within which it is to be arranged.

2; In an attachment of the class described, a water receiving chamber provided with water linlet openings, a water conducting tube extending upwardly from said chamberand in communication therewith, a cap over the upper end of said tube and having ribs on its under side resting on the edge of said upper end of the tube, said ribs spacing the under side of the cap from said end of the tube, a rod connected to the cap and passing through the tube, and means for securing the rod to the bottom of a vessel within which the attachment is located.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

JULIUS J. ZIELENSKE.

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